Groups and Workshops

Group facilitator: Kristin Jagels, MA

This group is intended for graduate-level students and designed to address issues related to being in graduate school as well as how that may impact mental health and relationships.

Group facilitator: Mun Yuk Chin, PhD

Participate in a group with other undergrad students to gain ideas and suggestions that can help you to develop self-awareness and insight on issues impacting you and others in the group. This group provides a space to process various concerns in a safe, open, and supportive setting with peers.

Group facilitators: Summer Bleich. MA

Being a woman of color and a graduate student can present a unique set of challenges. This processing group aims to provide a safe, secure, and supportive environment in which women can share and process their concerns and experiences with each other.

Group facilitators: Kylie Surmeier, MS & Mariah Johnson, MS

This group provides a space for women in graduate studies to process the stressors of graduate school in a safe, open, and supportive setting with peers. Develop insight, interpersonal skills, and self-awareness with other women graduate students in this weekly group to discuss issues and life events.

Group facilitator: Xiping (Kylie) Qiu, MS

Come and join a CAPS therapist to talk with other international students at UNL in a group with respect of confidentiality and nonjudgmental space.

Group facilitator: Joey Walloch, PsyD

This group can help you to: Increase flexibility and openness, develop social connectedness, learn social signaling skills, express emotions authentically, accept feedback and criticism, and reduce perfectionism.

Group facilitator: Kylie Qiu, MS and Mariah Petersen, MS

This workshop will teach students facts and skills including what is underneath social anxiety, how to relax their body and reduce tension, and when to use more advanced skills.

To join an upcoming workshop, call 402.472.7450.

Designed to help students with the transition to college and issues commonly faced, this series of workshops tackles different topics each week ranging from academic balance to friendships and relationships, communicating with faculty, resilience, productivity, self-care and more. For weekly topics by date, view the calendar below.

To join an upcoming workshop, call 402.472.7450.

In this Interactive group, you'll learn and talk about anger while taking a look at what might be causing you to feel irritable/angry. We'll also discuss effective ways to cope with anger and healthier ways to express what you are experiencing.

To join an upcoming workshop, call 402.472.7450.

In this introduction to assertiveness skills, you'll learn how to stand your ground and speak your piece by discussing passive, aggressive and assertive communication styles. Review your ‘assertive rights,’ which may help you find a middle path towards balancing your rights with the rights of others. Download the session handouts: Worksheet | Bill of Rights

To join an upcoming workshop, call 402.472.7450.

Are you too blunt with people? Or, do you sometimes not say something to avoid a conflict? This drop-in groups will give you ideas on how to communicate more effectively with others.

To join an upcoming workshop, call 402.472.7450.

This is a group for graduate students who are working on their thesis, dissertation, or research manuscript and need support. Topics could include organization, planning, writing, motivation, and/or getting support from your advisor or others.

To join an upcoming workshop, call 402.472.7450.

Gratitude is one of the ways for us to feel happier and thrive in our lives. The goal for these drop-in group is for participants to understand how positive practices can improve one’s overall feeling of happiness.

To join an upcoming workshop, call 402.472.7450.

This session aims to help with cultural adjustment and stress experienced by international students.

To join an upcoming workshop, call 402.472.7450.

Pandemic Resilience acknowledges that the persisting stress of COVID (both in terms of fears of illness, restriction of activities and loss of the sense of normalcy) produces real symptoms in all of us. This stress can also exacerbate current struggles. Pandemic Resilience offers a humanist and existential frame with a Monty Python twist, offering two brief interventions (deep breathing and identity affirmation). Download the session handouts.

To join an upcoming workshop, call 402.472.7450.

Join this virtual workshop to learn more about how the pandemic has affected our relationship with our bodies and what we can do to practice body respect and acceptance in this difficult time. Participants will learn practical ways to improve their relationship with food, body, and movement in this single-session workshop.

To join an upcoming workshop, call 402.472.7450.

Drop in to learn some tips and tricks to navigate UNL as a new student.

To join an upcoming workshop, call 402.472.7450.

Find out everything you’ve wanted to know about your emotions. Learn what they do for you, how to name common emotional experiences and learn what happens when an emotion “fires.”

This workshop is offered intermittently throughout the year. To join an upcoming workshop, call 402.472.7450.

This educational workshop teaches students how to avoid negative consequences related to their substance use. Topics covered include: Physiological Effects of Alcohol, Critical Thinking, and Assertiveness Training. This course meets psychoeducation requirements for Diversion.